Thomas Holcroft

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Born	December 10, 1745 • London • England
Died	March 23, 1809 (aged 63) • London • England

William Shakespeare

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Samuel Johnson

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Charles Dickens

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D.H. Lawrence

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Henry Fielding

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Robert Browning

British poet

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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John Dryden

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Ben Jonson

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Christopher Marlowe

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Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

Joseph Addison

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William Congreve

English dramatist

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Sir Richard Steele

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Graham Greene

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John Fletcher

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Robert Southey

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